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Nathan Crystal was appointed to serve as an advisor to the Ethics Compendium project of the American Immigration Lawyers Association

On May 17, 2016, Nathan Crystal, at the SC Bar Conference Center, will deliver a continuing legal education programfor the South Carolina Bar on the occasion of the publication of his 2016 edition of the Annotated South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct. See more herehttp://www.cgcfirm.com/2016/05/new-edition-of-annotated-south-carolina-rules-of-professional-conduct-presented-on-may-17-2016-in-columbia/

Nathan Crystal at ABA SIL program “Affiliation Agreements Between Law Firms: Across the Borders” – April 15, 2016 at 9.00 Grand Hyatt in NYC

Nathan Crystal has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2016 Edition of the Best Lawyers of America in the area of Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law.

Nathan M. Crystal & Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, Using Occam’s Razor to Solve International Attorney-Client Privilege Choice of Law Issues: An Old Solution to a New Problem, forthcoming in North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, volume 41.

On November 17, 2014, in Vancouver at ABA SIL’s 2014 North America (“Cross Border Ethics in the Digital Age” – details here). Material available: see here.

On November 17, 2014, in Vancouver at ABA SIL’s 2014 North America Forum Nathan M. Crystal will speak on “Cross Border Ethics in the Digital Age”. See details

The NY office of the law firm of which Nathan Crystal is a founder (Crystal & Giannoni-Crystal, LLC) has moved from 11 Broadway, Suite 615, New York, NY 10038 to 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 341, New York, NY 10038

This October, Ivanova María Ancheta Alvarado, Abogada y Notaria (admitted in Guatemala) joined our website as editor for Central America. She contributes to the News Section and the Newsletter, reporting on recent developments in Central American law.

Professor Crystal has created a discussion group on LinkedIn entitled Nathan Crystal on Ethics. “The legal profession is undergoing dramatic changes. Globalization, technology, and economic crisis are three factors that are causing these developments. Drawing on recent cases, ethics opinions, articles, and reports, we will try together to make sense of these changes.” If you want to take part, please apply through LinkedIn.

Our website has recently been joined by a new assistant editor for China: Lanlan Xue, Nankai University ’11. She cooperates with the News Section and with the Newsletter, reporting recent important evolution of the Chinese law.

July 18-21, 2011, Professor Crystal will teach a course of “Comparative Contract Law” in Tianjin, China inside the China 2011 Foreign-Study Program (Stetson Law). The course will explore the theoretical foundations of contract law by drawing on the resources of different legal systems. The primary sources of study will be the common law tradition represented by the U.S and the U.K. and the civil law tradition represented in European law. For info see Stetson Law website http://www.stetson.edu/law/studyabroad/china/media/CLASS_SCHEDULE_2011.pdf